The British invasion of the River Plate, 1806-7 : how the Redcoats were humbled and a nation was born /

In 1806, a British expeditionary force captured Buenos Aires. Over the next eighteen months, Britain was sucked into a costly campaign on the far side of the world. The Spaniards were humbled on the battlefield and Montevideo was taken by storm, but the campaign ended in disaster when 6000 redcoats...

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